What is gastric antral cancer? It is a malignant tumor

Antral cancer is a common digestive tract malignancy in clinic. The early symptoms are not obvious. Symptoms include abdominal discomfort or pain, followed by loss of appetite or weight loss. In the middle and late stages of gastric cancer, the symptoms are more serious and will attract the patient's attention and more and more attention, such as nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, black stools, etc., so timely treatment is required. It can be treated through surgical treatment, palliative resection and short-circuit treatment, etc.

When it comes to cancer, people are generally very scared because cancer is extremely harmful and will affect health. However, many people do not know much about cancer. For example, when many patients find themselves sick, they become anxious and extremely worried. They want to better understand what antral cancer is.
Antral cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive tract caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. Helicobacter pylori infection is not a necessary condition for the occurrence of gastric cancer. Generally speaking, after the onset of the disease, superficial gastritis, atrophic gastritis, and intestinal metaplasia will occur as inflammation develops. Finally, if the treatment is not timely, the condition will continue to worsen and become gastric cancer.
There are generally no special symptoms in the early stage of gastric antral cancer, but some patients may experience some abnormalities, mainly abdominal discomfort or pain, followed by loss of appetite or weight loss. Early cardia cancer may cause pharyngeal obstruction or progressive dysphagia. In the late stage of gastric cancer, the symptoms may become very serious, such as nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, black stools, etc., and may be accompanied by abdominal masses and permanent abdominal signs. It needs to attract everyone's attention and more attention.
After the onset of gastric antral cancer, timely treatment is necessary to avoid endangering the patient's life, so symptomatic treatment is needed in a timely manner. There are usually three surgical methods for the treatment of gastric antral cancer, and surgical resection is the most important means of treating gastric antral cancer. When performing surgical resection, the first is radical resection, which mainly refers to the surgical method of removing the primary site of the patient's gastric antral cancer, part of its tissues and its corresponding regional lymph nodes.
The second is palliative resection, which mainly refers to a surgical method for patients who cannot be cured by radical resection. Another surgical treatment method is short-circuit treatment. If antral cancer cannot be removed and there is pyloric obstruction, this method can enable the patient to eat to improve his nutritional status and create conditions for receiving other drug treatments.